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  • Contributors

Wendy Cheng is assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies and justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is the photographer and a coauthor, with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough, of A People's Guide to Los Angeles (forthcoming from the University of California Press). She is working on a book manuscript regarding regional processes of racial formation in majority–Asian American and Latina/o suburbs in Los Angeles.

Denise Cruz is assistant professor of English and American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book project studies the making and remaking of the modern transpacific Filipina, a cycle that she documents primarily in previously unstudied English literature produced by Filipina and Filipino writers from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Erica R. Edwards is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is at work on a book project under the working title Contesting Charisma: Fictions of Political Leadership in Contemporary African American Culture (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press). Her work has been published in Women & Performance, Callaloo, American Literary History, and Transforming Anthropology.

Michael A. Elliott is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English and American studies at Emory University, where he is senior associate dean of faculty. His publications include The Culture Concept: Race and Difference in the Age of Realism (Minnesota, 2002), American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader (coedited with Claudia Stokes; New York University, 2003), and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (Chicago, 2007). [End Page 241]

John S. Hogue is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he researches cultures of Caribbean tourism and relations between the United States and the West Indies.

Gregory Jay is professor of English and senior director of the Cultures and Communities Program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is author of American Literature and the Culture Wars and has most recently published essays focused on empathy in the work of Anna Deavere Smith, public scholarship and new media, and the use of service learning for multicultural pedagogy.

Khalil Anthony Johnson Jr. is a PhD student in African American studies and American studies at Yale University. His research traces the history of African American teachers who worked in reservation boarding schools during the civil rights era and explores questions surrounding race and subjugation; the nature of sovereignty, citizenship, and state power; and the tensions between competition and collaboration in interethnic campaigns for equality and civil rights. He receives support from the Ford Foundation.

Micki McElya is assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States and the histories of women, gender, and sexuality. She is author of Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Harvard, 2007) and is at work on Grave Affairs: Arlington National Cemetery and the Politics of Death and Honor, under contract with Harvard University Press.

Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Chair of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, is the author of several books, including Containment Culture (Duke University Press, 1995), Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America (Rutgers University Press, 1997), and Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (University Press of Kansas, 2005). He is the editor of two books on August Wilson and the coeditor, with Susan Griffin, of Henry James and [End Page 242] Alfred Hitchcock, the Men Who Knew Too Much (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Beth H. Piatote is an assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Native American/Aboriginal literature, law, and culture in the United States and Canada; Native American and American cultural studies; and Niimiipuu (Nez Perce) language and literature. Her book manuscript, Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature, is under contract with Yale University Press. Her most recent article, "Our (Someone Else's) Father: Articulation, Dysarticulation, and Indigenous Literary Traditions," appears in Kenyon Review.

Cathy Rex is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin...

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